The Syllabus Archive, within the Teaching Tools section of Fieldsights, is designed with instructors in mind, for those of us with more experience or for those of us who are just beginning to teach. The Syllabus Archive is a collection of materials useful for organizing courses and is designed to be used as individuals see fit. Some posts consist of multiple syllabi on curated topics, while others highlight certain frameworks or complementary content that can be used to craft better syllabi. For those of you who have had to create a syllabus from scratch, we are here to help and show that collaboration can be a great source for the future of anthropological teaching!
Plantation Worlds
There is no such thing as ‘the plantation.’ Although a recent surge in scholarship purports to address that very category, the term belies its own claim to univ... More
Syllabus Archive: Diverse Approaches to Transnationalism
Transnationalism is broadly understood as the interconnection and movement of humans, objects, ideas, ideologies, and processes that “transcend” nation-state bo... More
Love and Collaboration in Practice: Perspectives on Co-teaching a Graduate Seminar during a Pandemic
In this turbulent yet potentially transformative time marked by a global pandemic and urgent calls for racial justice and equity in society, we find it imperati... More
The Anthropology of Time: A Reading List In-the-Making
Introductions, Invitations Given the renewed scholarly attention to time and temporality, we present a reading list on the anthropology of time. This list is an... More
Syllabus Archive: Teaching Ethnographic Research Methods
How do we actually do fieldwork? This is a question that we seek to help our students of all levels discover in our courses, but even in graduate school curricu... More
Teaching Cultural Anthropology as a Community-Building MOOC-Style Course
This post highlights the introductory cultural anthropology syllabus prepared by Rebecca Howes-Mischel and Megan Tracy, which they organized in similar style to... More
A Complement to the Syllabus Archive: Primiano, Krishnan, and Sangaramoorthy's “Plagues, Pathogens, and Pedagogical Decolonization”
Through the Syllabus Archive on Teaching Tools, we have worked to put together different opportunities for people to share their approaches to emergent topics i... More
Syllabus Archive: Anthropology and the “Making” of Arts and Technologies
Making is central to knowing. Doing ethnographic fieldwork makes this obvious. It is less obvious in the classroom, however, where sitting and reading texts tog... More
Syllabus Archive: Critical Ethnographies
What is ethnography, and how do we teach about ethnography/ethnographies so that students understand the complexity of analysis? There have been many scholars w... More
Syllabus Archive Project: An Introduction
As someone newly immersed in a university teaching environment after shedding my role as a graduate student, I was excited, yet unsure of how to approach design... More